Limited cross-species virus transmission in a spatially restricted coral reef fish community.

ABSTRACT: The Great Barrier Reef (GBR)-the largest coral reef ecosystem in the world-supports over 1,200 fish species with some of the highest population densities and diversities observed in vertebrates, offering a high potential for virus transmission among species. As such, the GBR represents an exceptional natural ecosystem to determine the impact of host community diversity on virus evolution and emergence. In recent decades, the GBR has also experienced significant threats of extinction, making it one of the most vulnerable ecosystems on the planet. Despite the global importance of the GBR, our understanding of virus diversity and connectivity in tropical reef fishes remains poor. Here, we employed metatranscriptomic sequencing to reveal the viromes of sixty-one reef fish species. This identif

SUBMITTER: Costa VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994595 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature